Men folk have always been a little scarce around here. With all the women on the porch, Dub and I need some manly support. Those women kinda take over a place, ya know.

I like your sense of humor, too. Sometimes I manage to squeeze in a humorous word or two edge-wise. However, I'm expecting my eviction notice any day now. My damage deposit is history, too. The ladies probably spent it all.

Don

John 14:6Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."

See? I told you I crash both parties, even though I don't actually live in either region.

In other news, if you hadn't seen on facebook, I submitted the last payment for my student loan this past Saturday! I knew I was close, but I didn't realize just HOW close I was, so when I saw how close I was, I decided to just pay the rest in a lump sum.

Yep, that's right - surgery! The patient tried very hard to avoid the procedure, and even fought against the razor-sharp knife while on the operating table. However, the surgery was completed and successful as expected, but the patient died.

You see, I surgically removed two nice, bone-free fillets from the four pound walleye I skillfully caught while fishing on our lake yesterday. For those who do not know about such things, the fillets from 2-4 pound walleyes are the best. Them's mighty good eatin'!

Into the freezer they went. Then, after I catch 3-4 more of them I'll invite the porch sitters over for tasty walleye dinner. Walleye...Minnesota's finest! Yumm!

Don

John 14:6Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."

Cool morning in the swamp, but it is a pre cursor of temps to come, weather dude said 90s return next week. I actually have air conditioning on to take humidity out of the air. Relatives from TN expected sometime after lunch. They will be here till Tuesday, then the Atlanta folks move in. As they say on Motel 6 commercials - "We'll leave a light on for ya."

Cool morning in the swamp, but it is a pre cursor of temps to come, weather dude said 90s return next week. I actually have air conditioning on to take humidity out of the air. Relatives from TN expected sometime after lunch. They will be here till Tuesday, then the Atlanta folks move in. As they say on Motel 6 commercials - "We'll leave a light on for ya."

Y'all have a wonderful day celebrating God's Word.

Fresh Tuna on the grill? Yumm!

I've never caught one of those bad boys. But then, my fresh water lake would be hazardous to a Tuna's health.

The temp hit 91 degrees here yesterday. Last night powerful thunderstorms hit the area with high winds, hail and buckets of rain. The gauge showed 2", with more of all the above promised to come today, tonight, tomorrow, tomorrow night, Sunday, and Sunday night.

That will float my boat, and probably sink it, too.

Speaking of lakes...I have signed up for a 1 1/2 hour boat cruise and lunch on Minnesota's famous Lake Minnetonka scheduled for Thursday of next week. It's not just any boat, either. It is a refurbished old passenger steam boat that was hauled up from the lake bottom a couple of years ago. It had sunk and had been down there for many years. I hope they found all of the holes and plugged them. I wouldn't want to get my feet wet in 40' of water, ya know.

Don

John 14:6Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."

Welcome Dj, We like men on the porch--for the heavy liftin' doncha know.

Don, if it doesn't moo or cluck or oink, it's not meat for me, though I do like a good tuna melt sandwich. I had a great sandwich at Longhorn for lunch. I'm partial to their grilled chicken with cheese and bacon--all dipped in honey mustard.

I have a friend coming by tomorrow--so a just baked (by Me!) pound cake is on the counter.--Just coming for dessert and coffee. I'll put the rest on the porch, along with some Derby pie.

I've been enjoying the summer not-so-humid days, and wonder of wonders, we put the regular bird feeder back up and the few squirrels who did not move to "greener pastures" when we took it down are not bothering it.

Glad you got those college loans paid Allison. That's a big achievement.

Please pray for our region. A random shooter shot four people in a nearby village. Three in front of Walmart and one in front of a law firm. No report on the victims, as they are all at the hospital. So far there seems to be no reason given for the shootings, but the report noted that the shooter was heavily armed and planned to shoot more. He too is in the hospital with gun shot wounds, I suppose from police fire.

WELCOME, WELCOME, D.J. I have to ask, does D.J. stand for Disk Jockey or is it your real name, like David Jennings, or Dean Jordan or what. Hey, I have an idea. Let's have a contest about what your initials stand for. We get to guess as many times as we want to and the winner will be a hand-delivered fish dinner prepared by our own Don.

Let the guessing begin! I'm thinking:

Delbert Jackson

Mariane Holbrook

"Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness." Lamentations 3:22-23

Edy, I'd declare you the official winner but of course, I can't do that. D.J holds the key to this puzzle. Great answer, tho.

BTW, I was so late in getting your book and the others sent out. I sent out 6 and you'd think it was a monumental task, the way I kept putting it off. They were so thick that an ordinary envelope wouldn't work and I wanted them to arrive in good shape. Anyway, I'm glad yours arrived.

You know that story about John and the car horn? I'm thinking of writing it up and sending it to Chicken Soup For the Soul publishers. Might work.

Mariane Holbrook

"Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness." Lamentations 3:22-23